I've highlighted TouchDevelop just a few times... TouchDevelop to ArduinoTouchDevelop v3 - WinPhone 8, Speech, NFC, Tiles and much more...Reach out and touch the net with TouchDevelop and MaKey MaKeyDevelop for Windows Phone, with Windows Phone... TouchDevelopGetting in touch with TouchDevelop…

Is summer over yet? You haven't banished your kids to a tent in the backyard have you (yet)? Still looking for a way to keep them busy, a means to help grow your young geek? Well my friends, I'm here to help! Today's post is a project from MIT and while it's not really a "Microsoft" sphere…

This year, we're excited to be participating in Hour of Code by code.org. Hour of Code is happening as part of Computer Science Education Week, December 9 - 15. Two of the technologies we're suggesting for this event is Kodu Game Lab and Touch Develop.

This video is a walkthrough of the HTML5 platformer game kit for Windows 8. The goal of the video is to get you familer with the kit and act as a starting point for you own project. It covers topics from first steps, including acquiring the software needed to more advanced topics like importing…

First a tease... Try F# demonstrates the power of F# to solve real-world analytical programming and information-rich problems by providing a web experience to help you learn the F# language, create programs, and share information—quickly and easily. You all know how much I like "learning…

Microsoft is teaming up with a handful of universities to study if and how computer games can be useful in education for teaching students math, science, and technology. The research project has Microsoft working with NYU as well as City University of New York, Columbia University, Dartmouth…

Here's a much more fun way to learn geography than just staring at a map - a game called Statetris lets you learn geography by playing an online game, similar to Tetris, where states or countries are the blocks which you must move or rotate to fit them
into the correct locations. The Tetris board…

Lindsay Rutter is going to be doing a series of webcasts on Silverlight 2 in June, starting on June 16th. The topics will include learning about deep zoom, learning the WPF UI framework, learning about adaptive streaming, and more. In total, there will be 6 webcasts in all. To register for any of…